The International Drive water park is attending to last-minute details to "make everything perfect," a Wet 'n Wild spokeswoman said Wednesday. There were no additional details. A grand-opening event that rewarded the first 500 folks in line has also been suspended.

Aqua Drag Racer, which is 65 feet tall, begins with four enclosed tubes braided into each other. They open out into a side-by-side straightaway decorated in a black-and-white finish-line flag motif. Riders, on mats, will be traveling at 15 feet per second, water park officials say.

The new slide takes the place of the park's Bubba Tub.

Aqua Drag Racer would be the second Orlando water park addition of the season. Aquatica, SeaWorld's water park, premiered Ihu's Breakaway Falls, a steep-drop attraction, opened to the public last month.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — For the oldest town in America, St. Augustine has sure come a long way in recent years. The town of 14,000 on Florida's northern Atlantic coast celebrates its 450th birthday in late summer, but locals mostly have been rejoicing over the town's cultural growth.